Police in Yola on Wednesday said they did not ban Peoples Democratic Party congresses at Local Government level, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.
The Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone 3, Alhaji Tambari Yabo, said this in Yola.
Yabo said the police only advised the party to suspend the congresses scheduled for January 3 due to the security challenges facing the state.
He said within the week, gunmen attacked in Maiha, Hong and Fufore local governments.
He said the advice became necessary to enable the police to concentrate on security instead of trying to cope with the congresses.
Yabo said he met with PDP stakeholders, including members of the state caretaker committee on the matter.
Meanwhile, a Yola High Court has granted interim injunction restraining the PDP caretaker committee from going ahead with the congresses.
The injunction followed a request by one Mustapha Njobdi and two others.
The plaintiffs, who joined the PDP National Chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, and 10 others as co-defendants, challenged the party for dropping their names from the list of aspirants.
The plaintiffs, in a 45-paragraph affidavit deposed by their lawyer, Mr. Salihu Adamu, said they bought, filled and returned their nomination forms for the congress in Mubi South Local Government.
They said they later discovered that their names were missing.
The Presiding Judge, Justice Nathan Musa, who granted the interim injunction, adjourned the case till January 8 for the hearing of the substantive suit.
